高専２年英語学習者の総合的英語力を語彙サイズテストにより推定する試み

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This paper aims at clarifying whether it is possible to estimate students’ performance of English by conductingreceptive vocabulary tests. Measuring word knowledge is almost equivalent to deciding participants’ English skills, though English proficiency has a variety of aspects such as the abilities of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Participants were Japanese students of college of technology. One overall English proficiency test and a series of vocabulary tests were administered over a one-week period. Analyses of the data revealed that the consequence of the 3000 word-level receptive vocabulary test named Mochizuki’s vst31 had the most significant relation to that of the English performance examination,the third grade of the STEP test or Eiken of all the indicators. This study also offers a suggestion to shorten the time used to measure one’s general English performance.
津山工業高等専門学校の論文